I have become obsessed with planning my daughter’s high school course of study!
I attended a seminar this past weekend by Mary Schofield, author of The High School Handbook: Junior and Senior High School at Home
- Find out what your state requires from homeschoolers. California allows private schools to decide their own course of stud.HSLDA and others suggest is to follow traditional high school tracks and what colleges look for. See that article here. I went to the California Department of Education to find my requirements.
- Decide how many credits you will require of your children. If California only requires 20 credits in science that doesn’t mean that my high schooler will only do 2 years of science. I decide what our bare minimum will be. What I decide will be the minimum requirements for all students in our “school”.
- Decide what courses you will offer. Based on the credits you decided your child needs to complete, decide what courses your child will take. This is where it can change for each child. For example, my daughter will probably do several writing classes for her English Credits whereas my son, he will probably do more “Introduction to” Classes, etc.
So this is where I am at right now. I started my high school planning the minute I left the seminar. We are getting an early start on high school. She wants to start this summer so I need to have things thought out and in place by end of April!
By the way, HSLDA has a whole website dedicated to this topic! Check it out here.
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